Work & commute · Vanceboro

Work & commute in Vanceboro, NC

Most working residents leave Vanceboro for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are New Bern (21%), Greenville (8%) and Raleigh (4%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13 of 289 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 276 Vanceboro residents head out of town to work, 13 work right here, and 461 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Vanceboro.

276live here, work elsewhere

13live and work here

461work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Vanceboro goes to work

New Bern15.3 mi away

21%62

Greenville23.7 mi away

8%24

Vanceboro (in town)right here

4%13

Raleigh91.1 mi away

4%11

Jacksonville41.8 mi away

3%8

Kinston24.7 mi away

2%6

James City19.9 mi away

2%6

Washington19.1 mi away

2%5

Wilmington86.2 mi away

2%5

Durham108.3 mi away

2%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%144

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Vanceboro commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

11%

44%

16%

29%

11%Under 10 mi

44%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

29%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Vanceboro is a job hub

1.64jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Vanceboro are

474 jobs are based in Vanceboro. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Vanceboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Vanceboro

474 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less28%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month30%

Jobs Vanceboro residents hold

289 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month47%

+8%

Jobs based in Vanceboro, 2013 → 2023: 440 → 474. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.